The Chicago Sun-Times is demanding the Department of Homeland Security remove its photos from government social media pages under threat of legal action after the newspaper says the federal agency repeatedly used its photos in posts.

In a letter sent Thursday night and addressed to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and the agency’s acting general counsel Joseph Mazzara, Sun-Times attorney Steven Mandell said DHS had used three of the newspaper’s photos in social media posts from the past week. The letter said the Sun-Times would file a lawsuit for intellectual property right infringement immediately if the photos are not removed from government social media accounts.

“These usages are blatant infringements of [Chicago Sun-Times Media’s] intellectual property rights,” the letter states.

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